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Hello people, I 'd very much appreciate your help with a frustrating Internet access issue I got.
I have an ADSL connection through a TP-Link router, wired to a desktop computer. Up until 2 days ago or so wi-fi was working normally, on multiple devices.
After some ISP work in the area, which disabled all connections for a couple of hours and while the desktop retained its connectivity, I could not connect with any other (3 tested) device via wi-fi to the Internet.
The error I got from my laptop was "DNS server not responding". After some frantic goggle-tech, which led me to try several things, I noticed that all the others had their Internet connection lost altogether or in just one device, while I still got my cord working, just not the wi-fi, and on multiple devices/OSs as well.
Tried:
Router on and off again
Wi-Fi switch on and off again
Router reset
Router Factory Settings
DNS flush
Manual DNS from ISP, Open Source and Google
Nothing worked, but I think this is not a similar issue as these people had.
Finally, the laptop connects with the desktop, just not with the Internet.
This is way beyond my home user league, please halp :(
EDIT: Contacted ISP, everything's fine on their part.
EDIT2: Changed router, everything is back to sanity. I guess I'll never learn why only my wireless connections couldn't do whatever they do with this DNS stuff, I'll take my win.
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